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British North America

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British North America also British America
The former British possessions in North America north of the United States. The term was once used to designate Canada.

British North America
n
(Placename) (formerly) Canada or its constituent regions or provinces that formed part of the British Empire


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Anderson provocatively suggests that ideas drawn from English folklore might have provided a possible link to Native American ways of thinking, but that Christian concepts of man's dominion over animals governed both the ideas and the practice of animal husbandry in British North America.
Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860 by Harvey Amani Whitfield University of Vermont Press, November 2006, $24.
The early forts were constructed on commanding ground designed to protect specific points at the entrance to the Saint John River; beginning in 1793, the first defensive "system," incorporating multiple batteries, numerous types of fortification, magazines, communications, ordnance stores and barracks, covering an entire area, was begun, largely in acknowledgement of demographic and political changes in British North America and in response to threats from Europe and the United States.
 
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